Cath Senker

Cath Senker - Award-winning author, editor, teacher

With more than 30 years’ experience in publishing, I have written over 170 children's books, ranging from history, biography, global and social issues to world religions, human geography, science, business  and environmental topics. I also write for adults. You can buy Stranded in the Six-Day War here

As part of the Hopeful Solidarities project team, in collaboration with QueenSpark Books, in 2024 we produced Brighton Bound, stories of moving to, around and out of the city, 1920s–2020s.

In December 2018, Far From Home, Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty won the 2018 Educational Writers' Award.

Editor

I edit children's educational, trade and fiction titles; adult non-fiction and craft books; academic reports and online materials. I commissioned and edited the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Consultant Fellow academic writing blogs.

Teacher

I am a Lecturer in Academic Skills at the University of Sussex Law School, offering academic advice to students in one-to-one and group sessions, and undertaking research.

As a volunteer, I teach English to refugees and migrants at the Migrant English Project and co-run Story Tree, a story-reading group for refugees at Jubilee Library, Brighton.

Featured Book

Stranded in the Six-Day War

The extraordinary story of the 14 merchant ships trapped in the Suez Canal at the start of the Six-Day War in June 1967.

Listen to a podcast. Watch the Al Jazeera documentary. Watch the France TV film (in French).

This is a brilliantly researched and written account of an almost forgotten incident in the 1967 Middle East war. It's full of tasty nuggets of detail. The war stranded ships that were passing through the Suez Canal, and created a unique community of marooned seafarers. Recommended.

Jeremy Bowen, August 2017 (BBC Middle East editor and author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East).

Stranded in the Six-Day War, Cath Senker

From my blog

Sukkah decorated

Sukkot at Friends Meeting House

I recently helped build a Sukkah for the first time in my life. It might sound odd, but I was brought up to mark Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hannukah and Pesach but somehow Sukkot was ...
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Table at Story Tree

Story Tree – reading together

Every week in a library community room, you’ll see a group of people sitting around a table reading a story together. You might notice intense discussion, bursts of laughter, occasionally tears. This is Story Tree, ...
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Refugee Week 2023 poster with smiling children

Refugee Week visit to St Christopher’s Prep School, Hove

‘Thank you for coming in yesterday. The children really enjoyed your session and we've raised lots of awareness and money for Care4Calais which is wonderful.’ Rhona Sykens, Year 5 teacher, 23 June 2023   For the ...
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